Art of treating jute



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PATENT OFFICE.

ISIDOR'OHNSTEIN, OF CHICAGO, Immoral,

ART OF TREATING .1

UTE ,BUTTS, AND ANIMAL-HAlR.

SPECIFICATION forming part 5f Letters Patent No. 277,054, dated May 8,1883.

' Application filed February 21, 1882. (Specimens) To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ISIDOR ()mvsrnm, of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in the Art of Treating Jute, Butts, and Animal-Hair; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

This invention consists in the improvement in the art of treating jute, butts, and animal hair, as hereinafter described and claimed, to adapt the same to be used in the manufacture of wadding or batting.

In carrying out my invention 1 use lowest quality of jute, generally known in the trade as rejection. This I pass through suitable} machinery, in a perfectly .dry' condition, that] will tear and break it up into fine fibers. The

. butts I treat in a like manner, and the ani mal-hair I maeerate in a solution of lime for about three hours, and then clean it with boiling water. Next I steep the three materials in a solution of potash and logwood for giving them a nnit'ormcolor, or in any other dye, for about four hours; and next I dry the ma- :terials in a room that is heated to about 110 Fahrenheit. Now the material is thoroughly mixed in suitable willowing machinery, and is next passed through batting machinery, where it is formed into spongy, downy, and even wads, in a similar manner as for making cotton-wedding. For the purpose of making the I fibers very pliant and soft, I moisten the material during the mixing process with a solution of two parts of eastor-oil diluted with one part of purealcoho'l. lhe product thus obused for all purposes, is equal in every respect to cotton or wool wadding or batting, while its battings heretofore manufactured.

What I claim is- V Theimprovementin the art of treating' jute, butts, and animal-hair to adapt the same for use in the manufacture of wadding, herein described, consisting in tearing the jute into fine fibers, then macerating the animal-hair in a solution of lime, then washing; such hair in boiling wateathen steejfiiig the several materials ing (the materials, then mixing and moistenin-g the same with castor-oil and alcohol and 'finallybatting the same,si 1bst-antially as set forth.

my invention I afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

Witnesses: v ISIDOR- OIINSTEIN. F. W. KASEHAGEN, J. ERIEMTARD.

tained is very durable and odorless, can be cost is much less thauthatmf all waddiugs or in a solution of potash and dye-stall, then dry- In testimony that I claim the foregoing as 1: 

